Quoth Andriy Gapon on Tuesday, 29 March 2011: > on 29/03/2011 19:43 Paul Schmehl said the following: > > FreeBSD is first and foremost a server OS. Desktop support is lacking when > > compared to the other major OSes (Windows, Mac and Linux). You can make it > > work, > > if you want to, but that's not what its primary function is. > > Chiming in on a random post. > FreeBSD is whatever its users and developers make it to be. > FreeBSD is positioned as a general purpose OS and different people use it in > very > different ways. From embedded through servers to desktops. Yes, really. > > You can share your experience about FreeBSD as a desktop, I can share mine > (which > is quite different from yours), those would be interesting (and perhaps > useful) > anecdotes. > But, please, let's refrain from labeling FreeBSD and cornering it into some > niche. >
Hear, hear! I use it for my desktop, and I'm quite happy with it. -- .o. | Sterling (Chip) Camden | http://camdensoftware.com ..o | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | http://chipsquips.com ooo | 2048R/D6DBAF91 | http://chipstips.com
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